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Lydia Mackenzie

@lydiamackenzie.bsky.social
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Palaeoecologist and biogeographer at the University of Tasmania in lutruwita | Alpine ecology | Fire regimes | Palynology |

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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Clever - digging ponds to retain water in flat, eroded landscapes and restore blanket bogs. theconversation.com/the-pennine-...
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The Pennine hills are full of holes – here’s how they’re helping fight climate change
A new project is transforming badly affected peatlands from dark moonscapes to vibrant green moss-scapes.
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Dr Kaja Fenn (she/her) @drloessismore.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I’m using an ArcGIS StoryMap to document #fieldwork across #Tasmania and #NewZealand for the Southern Dustscapes project. It records sites, field observations, and sampling. Have a look if you’re interested in #Quaternary, #geomorphology, #loess or if you just want to see photos. arcg.is/XnDj10
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Southern Dustscapes
A field journey across New Zealand and Tasmania to uncover how dust shapes landscapes, climate, and Earth’s past.
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 16/12/2025
In Tasmania’s remote southwest, dry lightning storms are starting huge conflagrations across treeless plains. Could a return to cultural burning help?
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Hidden clues in colonial journals reveal why Tasmania’s remote west keeps burning
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Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Anybody used these for outreach or in the classroom? Recommendations on where to get one?
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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2025
Applications for the Leanne Armand award are now open. This award funds early and mid-career researchers based in Australia to access training in micropaleonotology. Applications are due 28th September, all details can be found on the AQUA website […]
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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2025
#ANSTO are looking to employ an ongoing climate research scientist. Rare opportunity to join a good group :) careers.ansto.gov.au/job/Sydney-Res… #FediJobs #FediHired #Climate
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Research Scientist - Climate Science
Research Scientist - Climate Science
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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
🌏 Rare opportunity to join us! We’re hiring two new Lecturer/Senior Lecturers in the School of Earth Atmosphere & Environment #MonashUni, a top 50 global university 🔬 Isotope Geochemistry 🛰️ Remote Sensing/Geospatial careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
Wilson’s Promontory or Yiruk Wamoon, 3 hours drive from Melbourne, Australia, is National Park with magnificent peaks, beaches, rainforest, and the world’s southernmost mangroves. A hiking and boating paradise, the promontory and surrounding islands are the exposed portions of a Devonian granite batholith.
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Jamie Shulmeister @jamie-shulmeister.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Update on the February 2026 International Conference on Geomorphology in New Zealand. We have extended the abstract deadline by 2 weeks until 13th June 2025. We have great plenary speakers, fieldtrips and young geomorphologist programme. #geomorphology #geoscience www.confer.co.nz/icg2026/
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Call For Abstracts - 2026 IAG International Conference on Geomorphology
Call for Abstracts Abstract Submissions Now Open! Click the button to the right to begin your abstract submission. SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT HERE Abstract
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Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A moment of calm on a perfect day in lutruwita (Tasmania)
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University of Tasmania @utas.edu.au · 20/05/2025
Australian researchers have discovered how a large mountain chain resembling the European Alps and buried deep below the East Antarctic ice sheet, grew and partly collapsed more than half a billion years ago. Read more: utas.au/mountain_chain
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Study of ancient collision zone reveals origins of enormous hidden mountain range in East Antarctica
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Garth-Gasu ガース in日本語 @gasugasu1984.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"The mutton birds have become so full of plastic their bellies crunch & crackle with the sound of it." @SenatorSurfer told me about this a few weeks ago. If this is not another wake up call for our rampant destruction of this planet I don't know what is www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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On this island the birds are so full of plastic they crunch
It's an exclusive tourist destination and one of the most pristine places on the planet. It's the last place you would expect to find birds with bellies so full of plastic that they crunch if you sque...
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Feeling bogged down or mired in anxiety? Consider that boglands, once equated to wastelands of misery, offer beauty and innovation. These treasures protect history as they control our climate future. With internal strength built one peat layer at a time, bogs control vast landscapes. Love the bogs.
Image of a bog landscape with patches of wetland, forest and open water.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 03/05/2025
Anthony Albanese wins 2025 federal election with Labor on track for majority
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Anthony Albanese wins 2025 federal election with Labor on track for majority
Peter Dutton set to lose his own seat of Dickson in Brisbane as Coalition suffers collapse in support * Election 2025 results LIVE: Australia votes tracker and federal seat counts * Listen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: Gina * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese has won the federal election and is poised to retain majority government after a nationwide swing to Labor. The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, is set to lose his home seat of Dickson in Brisbane in a disastrous result for the Coalition. Continue reading...
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University of Tasmania @utas.edu.au · 18/04/2025
Deepen your understanding of climate change and learn how you can take meaningful steps towards making a difference in your community and beyond with our free online course. Delivered by a recognised global leader in climate action, you can enroll today: utas.au/TheClimateSh...
A person in a garden setting examining a plant.
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Socializing with Scientists @socwithsci.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Listen to the full episode with University of Nottingham paleoecologist @michela-mariani.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2464891
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Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Spent the weekend hunting for wetlands! Beautiful sphagnum peatland and button grass moorland cored near Lake St Clair for the UTas PalaeoLab 🧪⛰️
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Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Not the screen I want to see after an hour writing in a local cafe :( 🧪📝
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Petr Kuneš @petrkunes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The first open science meeting of our new COST action happens in Prague in July! We want to attract all kinds of proxies 🐘🌲🐛🪲🔥🥀🧪🌾❄️🦠 - signup this week to get funding #PalaeOpen palaeopen.github.io/events/pragu...
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prague_2025 – PalaeOpen
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ARC COE for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures @ciehf.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🌿 Don’t miss CIEHF Partner Investigator Gerry Turpin on Gardening Australia tonight! Hear his story on Country, culture & plants. Filmed at JCU’s Nguma-bada Campus, showcasing deep knowledge and care for Land and Sea Country. 📺 ABC 7:30pm | Sun 1:30pm | Stream on iView.
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Steven J Phipps @stevenjphipps.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"But instead of pining for the past we might have to turn our focus to building the future – a future in which the scampering, bitey, ever-evolving descendants of today’s Tasmanian devils and eastern quolls (the great-great-great grand-nieces of the thylacine, 72 times removed) can thrive."
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Can we recreate a lost world? In Tasmania, anything could happen
The thylacine might walk again. Or Lake Pedder might rise again. The possibility of ecological restoration in the island state plays into the appeal of going back in time
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Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Some days in the lab are better than others! My new lab buddy arrived today 👀 🧪🥼
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Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Applications for @AINSE_Ltd’s online Winter School are NOW OPEN to final-year undergrads from AINSE-member universities. Discover how your future Honours, Masters & PhD #research can connect to world-class facilities at @ansto.bsky.social and beyond Apply now! ainse.edu.au/winter-school/
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Winter School
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Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
14 years ago I hiked Tasmania’s south coast track. Crazy how this feels like only yesterday! Time for round 2🥾🥾
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Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
What a great project and team!
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Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The Central Plateau is looking beautiful! Looking forward to going back for our biogeography field trip later this week with #UTas 🧪⛰️🚌
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Garth-Gasu ガース in日本語 @gasugasu1984.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
a beautifully written piece by Andrew Darby "And Tasmania is in a new age of fire." the fact is that we are seeing ancient Gondwana flora burn in places that have never before burnt This is climate change We must protect it like the treasure it is www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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Jurassic-era trees have grown in Tasmania for millions of years. Now they face their biggest threat: fire
Pencil pines grow for more than a thousand years each, and only in Tasmania. As lightning fires become more common, humans must mobilise to protect them – or lose these ancients forever
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Gepatschferner (Kaunertal, Tirol, AT) 2020 | 2024 Demise of the largest glacier in Tirol over the last 5 years! 😱 When the landscape is evolving at a non-geological speed... 🔥 📽️ Martin Mergili (Uni Graz), Stefan Haselberger (Uni Wien/PHUSICOS)
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ARC COE for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures @ciehf.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
New Job Opportunity - Research Fellow (Palaeoecology/Geography) at ANU The ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) is seeking a Research Fellow to join its ANU Node in Canberra Details in the attached link. For inquiries: Simon.Haberle@anu.edu.au
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Research Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification:  Academic Level BSalary package: $115,739 – $131,227 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Full time, Fixed term (up to November 2025) Fantastic opportunity to work at a University t...
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ARC COE for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures @ciehf.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Postdoctoral Fellow in Paleoecology The ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Paleoecology to join our interdisciplinary research team at The University of Melbourne. 🔗 jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91951...
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Details : Postdoctoral Fellow, Paleoecology : The University of Melbourne
Careers at The University of Melbourne
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@WildImmunity @wildimmunity.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
#SciPubTas Inspiring Women In STEMM event is on at #DeepSouthBrewing at 530pm today. @utas.edu.au facebook.com/events/s/ins...
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Inspiring Women in STEMM event for International Women's Day
Event in North Hobart, TAS, Australia by Science in the Pub Tasmania and Emily Johnston Flies on Saturday, March 8 2025 with 100 people interested.
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Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
A peaceful morning at my favourite beach 🏖️
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
How about some botany for a change? Raindrops on drosera (sundew). Such pretty plants, if you look closely. Spring Gully Conservation Park, Clare Valley.
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Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Enjoying a quiet weekend around Huonville after a busy start to the Semester. Great to be back in the classroom and see students on campus again 🧪🌏🏔️
Black dog looking longingly at plate of colourful Turkish dips
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Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
New postdoc in Australian archaeology from Sydney University #auatralianarchaeology #coastalarchaeology #archaeomalacology
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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Horrendous fire weather in Tasmania / Lutruwita at moment, especially the west coast, World Heritage wilderness area and local towns. Cold change with rain can’t come fast enough 😳
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Live: Bushfires threatening communities on Tasmania's west coast
Communities on Tasmania's west coast are bracing as bushfires bear down, with several communities on alert. Follow live.
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Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
A bit warm in Hobart today. Hoping the rain forecast for later tonight can help with the fires burning in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area 🔥
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Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
WiSH workshop was a lot of fun! Need another reason to come back to NZ soon. Thanks to #INQUA and all participants
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Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
What a great group of people! Some ok glacial landscapes in the background too.
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Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
What a brilliant initiative!
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Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Day 2 of the WISH workshop wasn’t all hard work. Beautiful glacial landscapes around Cass! Find out more about our #INQUA funded workshop here: warmintervalssh.wordpress.com
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Jamie Shulmeister @jamie-shulmeister.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Great first day at the WISH workshop at the University of Canterbury field station at Cass. Haidee Cadd inspired us with a brilliant talk on quantifying change points and trends in #paleoclimate records. Looking forward to day 2! #climatechange #geoscience #paleoecology
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Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Warm Intervals in the Southern Hemisphere (WiSH) workshop as for our #INQUA funded project in Cass, NZ. Brilliant group in a beautiful location! Find out more: warmintervalssh.wordpress.com
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Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
A quick trip to Cradle Mountain!
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Fiona Walsh @gumboots.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
landscaperecovery.com.au/mjk-memorial... First round open!
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MKJ Memorial Fund — Landscape Recovery Foundation
The Melanie Jane Kelly Memorial Fund has been established in recognition of Mel Kelly’s significant contribution to conservation for over 25 years
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Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Hard to stay in the office when the sun is shining down on kunanyi today (which I can just see from my office if I climb onto the desk). Hope some of you are out there enjoying the alpine zone 💁‍♀️⛰️🧪
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Jamie Shulmeister @jamie-shulmeister.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Just over a year to the International Conference on Geomorphology in #Christchurch New Zealand. Please put it in your diaries and we hope to see you down here in beautiful #Aotearoa. With the exchange rate on the NZ dollar the conference will be very affordable. www.confer.co.nz/icg2026/chri...
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Christchurch - 2026 IAG International Conference on Geomorphology
Christchurch, Your Host A warm welcome awaits you in Christchurch, a place of greenery, contemporary and classic architecture, scenery and space. Otautahi
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Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Number of snacks needed for a day of marking is somewhat higher than the number of snacks I have in the office 😭#academicproblems
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Sean Ulm @seanulm.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
New excavation of ‘rings of mystery’ in Victoria reveals rich Aboriginal history theconversation.com/new-excavati... Full text of the article by @carolinedigs.bsky.social and colleagues published in @austarchj.bsky.social available at: doi.org/10.1080/0312...
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New excavation of ‘rings of mystery’ in Victoria reveals rich Aboriginal history
Archaeologists and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people are shedding new light on a series of enigmatic earth rings located in southeastern Australia.
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Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
New year same me buried under marking and wondering when I can get back to the lab 🧪 💁‍♀️
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Henricus Peters @learnfromnature.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
In 2025, let’s make it game on – not game over – for our precious natural world #HappyNewYear2025 theconversation.com/in-2025-lets...
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In 2025, let’s make it game on – not game over – for our precious natural world
Amidst habitat destruction and ecological grief, let’s make a New Year’s resolution for nature — to care for beetles and butterflies, rainforests and reefs, ourselves, and future generations.
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